We have a week full of online gambling news with headlines about online gambling in Michigan, sports betting in Kentucky, poker in California, and tribal gaming in Oklahoma!
Hello friends and welcome to This Week in Gambling! Our last show before I take a week off to attend the International Casino Expo in London, England. So, I’m filming this early on Saturday, so if something happens… some major big gambling story breaks between now and Tuesday… don’t come yelling at me!
This week’s stories begin in the state of Michigan, where online gambling news was good recently. Legislators had passed an internet gambling bill, but the rules to regulate the activity will not be in place for at least another year! But hey, what do you expect from a state whose motto is literally “Land of Disappointment”?
Next up, its sports betting news from the state of Kentucky. Optimism has turned to pessimism in the Bluegrass State as sports betting regulation was expected to pass, but now rumor has it the legislation will never make it out of the Senate.
Also, poker news from the state of California where “alleged” Poker cheat Mike Postle was finally served papers in the $10 million lawsuit against his sorry ass. He had been hiding in his house for the past several months to avoid this, but he emerged and got served! Then, of course, he saw his shadow and went back inside because, you know… six more weeks of winter.
Also this week, land-based gaming news from the state of Oklahoma, where the governor says that Tribal casinos in his state are now operating illegally because their Tribal Gaming Compact expired on January 1st. Not-so say Tribal gaming leaders… they contend that their compact automatically renewed on January 1st and they’re doing nothing wrong. There’s an easy way to clear this all up. I mean a simple reading of the compact clearly states:
“This Compact shall have a term which will expire on January 1, 2020, and at that time, if organization licensees or others are authorized to conduct electronic gaming in any form other than pari-mutuel wagering on live horse racing pursuant to any governmental action of the state or court order following the effective date of this Compact, the Compact shall automatically renew for successive additional fifteen-year terms; provided that, within one hundred eighty (180) days of the expiration of this Compact or any renewal thereof, either the tribe or the state, acting through its Governor, may request to renegotiate the terms of subsections A and E of Part 11 of this Compact.”
See?! It’s all right there in plain English! I don’t know what all the confusion is about!
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